Word on the street is that there will be an army of undercover cops to bust anyone that even looks like they have weed or any other type of intoxicant not kosher with county, state, or federal law. For realz.

Word on the street is that there will be an army of undercover cops to bust anyone that even looks like they have weed or any other type of intoxicant not kosher with county, state, or federal law. For realz.

The one and only thing I have to snark about is repeats on the same stages. I think it's unfair to other local bands. 2 years in a row for some bands on the same stage isn't cool at all and it should be faux pas and not allowed. C'mon guys WTF?

Other than that Comfest rulz. See u all there yay! Only a few days! WOOOOOOHOOOOO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!1!!!1!!!

The one and only thing I have to snark about is repeats on the same stages. I think it's unfair to other local bands. 2 years in a row for some bands on the same stage isn't cool at all and it should be faux pas and not allowed. C'mon guys WTF?

Other than that Comfest rulz. See u all there yay! Only a few days! WOOOOOOHOOOOO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!1!!!1!!!

I agree completely. Offramp only has 4 bands that played last year. A ton of great new bands.

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The one and only thing I have to snark about is repeats on the same stages. I think it's unfair to other local bands. 2 years in a row for some bands on the same stage isn't cool at all and it should be faux pas and not allowed. C'mon guys WTF?

Other than that Comfest rulz. See u all there yay! Only a few days! WOOOOOOHOOOOO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!1!!!1!!!

ditto. Really, there are acts that have played the same stage for 5 years in a row. Not to mention the people in 5 bands who seem to get all their bands booked every year, while others sit from the sidelines going "WTF, I just saw that guy playing an hour ago with another band?" Ohio is the home of the "I'm in 4 bands" musician. I should know, I'm one of them.

I'm not sweating it at all. I really had fun playing, but I have more fun watching. Comfest rules.

HONEST QUESTION FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW Exactly how many KKKops can I eXpect to be IN the park this weekend

I JUST NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE HUGE KNOT THAT WILL FORM IN MY STOMACH AS I SEE KIDZ BENT OVER AND HANDCUFFED FOR PUFFING J'ssssssssssss

This is apparently very true due to the stabbing last year. This is also why comfest almost did not happen and why it is ending early. The city was going to try to shut the festival down all together. It seems like many people might get busted this year. The cops making their complaint against open lawlessness in the park, and having the upper hand considering last years death. There is rumor of a base station being set up close to the park to process large numbers of offenders. Can anyone from comfest proper elaborate or confirm?

2 cents worth: I wouldn't worry that much about it. With over 50,000 people in the park, unless you're naked, painted purple, and waving a kilo of pot around while standing on the Bozo Stage, I think your odds of getting busted are still pretty slim....?

HONEST QUESTION FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW Exactly how many KKKops can I eXpect to be IN the park this weekend

I JUST NEED TO PREPARE FOR THE HUGE KNOT THAT WILL FORM IN MY STOMACH AS I SEE KIDZ BENT OVER AND HANDCUFFED FOR PUFFING J'ssssssssssss

This is apparently very true due to the stabbing last year. This is also why comfest almost did not happen and why it is ending early. The city was going to try to shut the festival down all together. It seems like many people might get busted this year. The cops making their complaint against open lawlessness in the park, and having the upper hand considering last years death. There is rumor of a base station being set up close to the park to process large numbers of offenders. Can anyone from comfest proper elaborate or confirm?

This is all pretty much untrue. Almost every word of it.

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2 cents worth: I wouldn't worry that much about it. With over 50,000 people in the park, unless you're naked, painted purple, and waving a kilo of pot around while standing on the Bozo Stage, I think your odds of getting busted are still pretty slim....?

I'll be wearing a M&M halloween costume with no bottoms and carrying a super soaker full of morphine. Holler. If you post here and want to know where "The Macgruber of Drugs" is hanging come see me. You will have to be able to finish the phrase "Only Neo is me, no Cleo can see my future..."

I will also need a reliable person to bail me out of jail so I can go to work on Monday. I'm partying responsibly this year.

I'll be wearing a M&M halloween costume with no bottoms and carrying a super soaker full of morphine. Holler. If you post here and want to know where "The Macgruber of Drugs" is hanging come see me. You will have to be able to finish the phrase "Only Neo is me, no Cleo can see my future..."

I will also need a reliable person to bail me out of jail so I can go to work on Monday. I'm partying responsibly this year.

I'll be wearing a M&M halloween costume with no bottoms and carrying a super soaker full of morphine. Holler. If you post here and want to know where "The Macgruber of Drugs" is hanging come see me. You will have to be able to finish the phrase "Only Neo is me, no Cleo can see my future..."

I will also need a reliable person to bail me out of jail so I can go to work on Monday. I'm partying responsibly this year.

The one and only thing I have to snark about is repeats on the same stages. I think it's unfair to other local bands. 2 years in a row for some bands on the same stage isn't cool at all and it should be faux pas and not allowed. C'mon guys WTF?

Other than that Comfest rulz. See u all there yay! Only a few days! WOOOOOOHOOOOO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!1!!!1!!!

ditto. Really, there are acts that have played the same stage for 5 years in a row. Not to mention the people in 5 bands who seem to get all their bands booked every year, while others sit from the sidelines going "WTF, I just saw that guy playing an hour ago with another band?" Ohio is the home of the "I'm in 4 bands" musician. I should know, I'm one of them.

I'm not sweating it at all. I really had fun playing, but I have more fun watching. Comfest rules.

agreed. pretty clicky it seems. so who do i need to be friends w/ cause obviously my band has been hanging w/ the wrong people.

The biggest thing I have heard about ComFest since becoming a local musicicalicialician is "it's cliquey". Then I hear "but it's not, really, it's open to everyone to try out" and "they'll come hear and see bands who try out". Then I hear "this year there will be more new bands they promise'.

What confuses me is that all of these statements are often true and false simultaneously. ComFest changes reality like that. So does rumor mill telephone gaming and a lack of transparency wrapped in a layer of community openness.

I wonder what changes the next few years will bring as the Lumpy Wavy Gravy crowd like Mark F lose influence over the Committee folks.

Also, "new bands" often means "same guys from The Magic Fucknostrils except with a new drummer so they're called Beans A Neck Pillow now". This is partly insularity and cliquishness, partly the fact that the social circles in columbus are terribly overlapping.

Good on you for volunteering. I can't take the crowds. Agoraphobia and ComFest don't mix.

There really are like 50 people in Columbus though, because in the musical scene, goth scene, punk scene, club scene, all of em, everybody knows somebody through somebody else. Columbus is a giant super overlapping Venn Diagram, and at the center are a small handful of people.